Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that plant scientists have teamed with manufacturing systems engineers at the lab .... ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a downside to this protective mechanism: the plant's ...

Major upgrades to greenhouses at the Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement ushers a new era of plant research at Texas A&M AgriLife.

To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens the bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with manufacturing systems engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge ...

Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...

Philly is not just home to birds fans, but also, you know… actual birds, like the Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay and Red-tailed Hawk. American snapping turtles and bullfrogs live in our waterways.

Many Lancaster County families are already familiar with the North Museum’s natural wonders, from its live animal room to its ...

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

Not far from the crowds of Venice, sea lavender locks away carbon, builds ecosystems, and could help coastal cities weather a ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest ...

Scientists at the University of Virginia and NASA have come up with a small, hand-held device that could be a big help to ...